Brooder.



J. W. MORRIS.

BROODER.

APPLIOATION FILED APR. 12, 1912.

Patented Nov. 11, 1943.

g; INVENTOR V WITNESSES: F 3 J a James M. Marni;

TEN T OFFTfiE.

JAMES W. M03313, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF TO RICHARD W. SWEET, 0)? OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA.

BROODEE.

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where the chicks may have access to when such is desired.

The principal objects of my invention are to provide a breeder which is simple in corn struction, efficient inaction, and inexpensive in manufacture.

f Further objects of my invention are to provide for proper ventilation of the brooding compartment; to render the ventilating means regulatable, and to enable the device to be adapted for comfortably receiving the chicks according to their size.

specification: Figure l is a perspective view of the brooder, parts being broken away and removed to disclose details of construction. Fig. 2 is a central vertical longitudinal, sectional'view of the brooder embodying my invention. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of what I hereinafter term the hover. Fig. 4 is a cross sectional view on. lines 4% of 2.

Similar characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The outer housing 1, preferably made of corrugated paper board, comprises a boxlike portion 2, open at the top and having an opening 3 at one side thereof, and a second box-like portion 1 open at the top and one side and adapted to telescope the portion 1. The sides adjacent the open end of portion 4- are braced at the top by'a tie piece 5 and when the parts 2 and t are in assembled relation to each other, the opening 3 communicates with the interior of the box-like portion 4, as clearly shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing. As a means to protect the occupants of the brooder from rodents, 50 hawks, or the like, I prefer to cover the open tops of portions 2 and 4 with pieces of wire netting 6 and 7, respectively, so disposed or connected therewith as to be readily detachable to permit access to the interior of 15% the housing, when such is found necessary.

Specification of Letters Patent.

In the drawing, forming a part of this Patented Nov.1 1, leis].

Application filed April 18, 1912. Serial No. 691,624.

cylindrical shell 11 provided with a top 12,

having an opening 13 centrally thereof, the

shellll being relatively smaller than shell 9 V permitting the one to telescope the other and providing an air space 1 1 therebetween; a ventilating stack 15. passing through the opening 13 and held in a rigid position with shell 11 through brace rods 16 or their equivalents, the stack being disposed with its lower end in spaced apart relation to the bottom 10 when the shells 9 and 11 are in assembled relation to each other; a guard 17 about the lower end of the stack 15, and a pad or blanket l8 suspended from top 12. The said pad or blanket 18, snugly engages the chicks, is preferably annular in shape, disposed about stack 15, and is preferably formed of one piece in order that the chicks will not become entangled therein. The shells 9 and 11, have openings 19 and 20, respectively, which may be made to register, to permit access to and from the hover, or the latter shell may be moved to vary or close the opening, and when assembled, the hover is positioned with shell 9 partly extending through opening 3, and the opening 19 therein permits access to and from the area provided for by box-like portions 4 of the house. 7

The lower margin of shell 11 has a plurality of recesses 21 therein, which permit the air to find egress to the hover through space 14. and recesses 21, the foul air finding egress through stack 15. Inasmuch as the opening of stack 15 is adjacent the bot tom of the hover, it provides for constant renewal of the fresh air into the compartment.

The operation of the device is as follows: During the day, the device is arranged as shown in Fig. 1, with shell 11 turned so that its aperture 20 permits access to and from the area formed by housing portion 4:, through opening 19. At night time, with all the chicks within the hover, the shell 11 is rotated suiliciently to close the opening 1.9, as desired. As the chicks become older, and consequently larger, a block, not shown in the drawing, may be placed under the lower margin of the shell. 11 to raise it higher above the bottom 10. The guard 1'7, which is carried by the-bottom 10, is setticiently high to permit the stack 15 to telescope thereinto and consequently when the shell 11 is raised, as described, theguard still serves its function. When the brooder 1S stored away, the housing portion e may.

be telescoped on portion 2 to make it more said shells being disposed topermit ingress of airto within the hover'and having openings inth'e walls thereof'adapted to register'with each other, and" means providing for egress o f'air from withinsaid shells.

3. In a'broo'der, a hover comprising in combination, a cylindrical shell provided with a bottom. a'second cylindrical shell provided with" a top. adapted to telescope said first mentioned cylindrical shell with a spacetherebetween and having a plurality of'recesses at its. lower margin, said cy lindrical shells having openings adapted to register and PCI'HHi/ZLCCGSS to andfrom the same, a' stackicarried' by said first mentioned shell concentric therewith, a guard about saidstack, and a blanket'carried by said second mentioned shell;

4. 111 a brooder,,a hover comprising in combination, a cylindrical shell provided with a; bottom, a seccnd cylindrical shell carried by the said bottom of said 'firstmentioned shell concentric therewith, and a stack carried by said second mentioned shell concentric therewith and adapted. to telescope with said guard:

5. In abrood'er, a hover comprising in combination, a cylindrical shell provided with a bottom, a second cylindrical shell provided'witha top, adapted to telescope said first mentioned cylindrical shell witha space therebetween and having a plurality of'recessesin its lower margin, a stack 'car ried by, said second mentioned shell concentric therewith, and a blanket carriedby "said second mentioned shell'i Y 6: A brooder= COIIlPIlSlIlgiIl combination, a housing including a box-like portion'having an opening in one side" an'd a second box like 7 portion adapted to telescope said first mentioned boX=lile"portionwith the said opening exposedtliereinto, and hover adapted to be carried by said first mentioned boX-likeportion an'd'havingfan' op'en ing, adapted to be positioned' at the said opening in the latter.

In testimony; whereof I ailiX my" signature in presence oftw'o witnesses. I

V J AMESWQ MORRIS. Witnesses:

F. P; Sonnononn, M. MI ESCHERICH.

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